Computer Quote by Tim Pigott-Smith

I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.

— David Thewlis

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the…

— Elif Batuman

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish -…

— Hanif Kureishi

I won't read novels while writing novels.

— Wally Lamb

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never…

— Michael Ondaatje

“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”

— William Faulkner

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't…

— Arthur Golden

Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.

— Emma Healey

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at…

— Irving Wallace

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

— James Ellroy